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Wednesday 25 July 2018

EU threatens America with $20bn tit-for-tat tariffs

EU threatens America with $20bn tit-for-tat tariffs

EU leader Donald Tusk; and American President Donald Trump

The EU is mulling tit-for-tat tariffs of around $20 billion on US products if Washington goes ahead with its threat of new tolls on European cars, the bloc’s trade commissioner said Wednesday.

“We hope that this won’t happen and that we can reach a solution. If not, then the European Commission will prepare a long list on American goods. It would amount to around $20 billion,” Cecilia Malmstrom told the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.

She said the US goods would include machinery, agricultural and high-tech products, among others.

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Her comments came as US President Donald Trump was set to meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in the US capital for talks over a festering trade dispute between the two key economies.

Trump, who has threatened to impose tariffs on European autos and auto parts, said it was his tough stance that brought the European leader to the bargaining table.

Juncker, who reiterated that Brussels would retaliate if Trump goes through with the measures, told German public broadcaster ZDF on Wednesday that the EU is “not in the dock — we don’t need to defend ourselves.”

“We don’t know any other strategy than dialogue,” said Malmstrom, who is currently in Washington with Juncker.

“We will explain that the EU is not a foe but a friend and an ally. We and the US share same view that the World Trade Organisation must modernise,” she told DN.

Trump is facing increasing criticism as consumers, farmers and businesses are taking a hit from the retaliation to the raft of US tariffs on steel, aluminium, and tens of billions of dollars in products from China that he has imposed in recent weeks.

Republican Senator Ben Sasse, a frequent Trump critic, said the president’s trade policies recalled a past of perilous economic instability.

(AFP)

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